Commune \Com*mune"\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Communed} (k[o^]m*m[=u]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Communing}.] [OF. communier, fr. L. communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See {Common}, and cf. {Communicate}.] 1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
I would commune with you of such things That want no ear but yours. --Shak.
2. To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.
To commune under both kinds. --Bp. Burnet.
{To commune with one's self} or {To commune with one's heart}, to think; to reflect; to meditate.
Commune \Com"mune\ (k[o^]m"m[=u]n), n. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
For days of happy commune dead. --Tennyson.
Commune \Com"mune\ (k[o^]m"m[=u]n), n. [F., fr. commun. See {Common}.] 1. The commonalty; the common people. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the ``commune'', the general mass of the inhabitants, against the ``prudhommes'' or ``wiser'' few. --J. R. Green.
2. A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See {Arrondissement}.
3. Absolute municipal self-government.
4. a group of people living together as an organized community and owning in common most or all of their property and possessions, and sharing work, income, and many other aspects of daily life. Such sommunities are oftten organized based on religious or idealistic principles, and they sometimes have unconventional lifestyles, practises, or moral codes. [PJC]
{The Commune of Paris}, or {The Commune} (a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the ``Reign of Terror.'' (b) The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871.
Sect members won political control of the nearby community of Antelope, renaming it City of Rajneesh, and attempted to control voting in Wasco County by busing thousands of homeless people to the commune in 1984.
Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1978, ending a four-year reign of terror by a Khmer Rouge government that tried to force a radical agrarian commune on the population, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Another major source of friction with authorities is the city council's contention that Bakr built his commune without a clear title to the land.
He broke into the gypsy bus business in 1968 piloting a wheezing school bus coast-to-coast for a California commune called the Morning Star Brothers.
Thousands of followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru of free love, flocked to his commune Saturday a day after his death to celebrated what they consider the release of the Rajneesh's spirit.
Rajneesh spent four years in central Oregon, where he set up a huge commune that became home to thousands of slavish disciples whose big thrill of the day was seeing the guru drive by and wave from the windows of one of his 93 Rolls-Royces.
Local health officials said Rajneesh suffered from AIDS, but the commune denied those reports about two years ago.
Then he bought a 12-volt TV set, which some austere commune members eyed with contempt.
Rajneesh was deported three years ago from the United States after he pleaded guilty to immigration fraud and closed his 64,000-acre commune of Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon.
There is widespread fear that the Khmer Rouge, which from 1975 to 1978 sent hundreds of thousands of Cambodians to their death as it tried to turn the country into a primitive agrarian commune, could fight its way back to power.
The groups particularly oppose the coronoation's rice ceremony _ during which the new emperor is believed to commune with the gods. They claim it is a remnant of prewar nationalism.
The sect's leader, Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada, recently was found innocent of arson charges, although another commune member was convicted in the case.
The commune eventually collapsed after both Rajneesh and his personal secretary were arrested.
A man whose charred body was found near a Hare Krishna commune was shot in the head by a small-caliber gun, authorities said Monday, but they do not know if the death was a suicide or homicide.
Amid the anti-development comments collected in 1987 were statements from recreational vehicle enthusiasts and urban dwellers who want creature comfort more than backwoods hardship when they commune with nature.
I heard nothing more. In August, when I turned up for the appointment at the commune, it had been cancelled because I had not contacted the police.
Qin's terracotta army was discovered by peasants from a local commune who were digging a new well to irrigate their parched soil in March 1974 following a winter drought.
Three of the four were leaders of Rajneesh's 64,000-acre commune in north-central Oregon where Rajneesh presided beginning in 1981.
Lundgren often seemed irritated with Avery, according to John Olivarez, whose daughter once lived at the commune.
Later a dam was built on the Vaza Barris River below Canudos and most of the commune was flooded by the reservoir it created.
The coup attempt by Abu Bakr, leader of a commune of 250 to 350 Moslems, began July 27.
Unlike most of Lundgren's followers, the Averys lived in town, about three miles from the commune.
Sheela was personal secretary to the late guru when he ran the Oregon commune of Rajneeshpuram.
There is time for a quick commune with the spirit of Herbert Hoover, who thought he was signing on for a little "agricultural relief," but got swept along with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and saddled with the Great Depression.
The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for four years until Vietnam's 1978 invasion, sending hundreds of thousands of people to their death as it tried to convert the country into a radical agrarian commune.
They attracted numerous young followers and formed a commune in Saugus, later moving it to Arkansas.
He had accused Bhaktipada and others at the commune of drug trafficking, prostitution, and child abuse, the indictment said.
In 1964, Mao Tse-tung hailed the spirit of self-sacrifice in rural Da Zhai county, where peasants turned barren land into a supposedly prosperous commune.
They say they are not survivalists, not a religious cult and not a commune.
Months ago they identified two nights in Washington as the time to escape from wives and children and commune with a past they have romanticised but never experienced. The brothers ordered concert tickets.